Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not aware of any plans to look at alternative sites for the national maternity hospital. The Government considered it some time ago and decided, for good, clinical, patient safety and patient quality reasons, that all four maternity hospitals should be relocated and co-located with adult hospitals. That is the case in Limerick, with University Maternity Hospital moving to the Dooradoyle site. It is also the case with the Rotunda Hospital moving to the Connolly Hospital and the tri-location of the Coombe with the children's and adult hospitals in St. James's Hospital. The most obvious and best fit for Holles Street and the national maternity hospital, notwithstanding the enormous complications, is St. Vincent's hospital. I am not aware of any plans to look at alternative sites.

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